On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Sep 26, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Personally I don't think that automatic formatting is good when it comes to
communicating code between people who use the formatting to carry meaning;
but between people who want to cancel the potential meaningfulness of
formatting, an automatic formatter is the perfect tool, as you can't get
any extra information out of anything completely predictable.
Having common code formats is standard practice in any well organized
projects (check the Linux and GNU standards for examples). Many have it done
autmoatically when you check your code in to the repository.
Yeah, I'm sorry, I don't know why I started talking about that, I could
have guessed that you would be all about standards of other projects and
not really enjoy talking about a communication theory of source code.
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